Season 6 Dev Blog #27

By PWE_BranFlakes @ September 18, 2012 at 12:00pm

83 Comments »

• wolfpacknz @ Oct 1st, 2012 3:42PM

  They haven't listened for a long time... "pertune this crap isnt worth 200K cryptic , maybe half that or a 1/4 that cost , and its completely worthless..... seriously dont you listen to the players at all ?"

• irrapirthesecond @ Sep 23rd, 2012 3:12PM

  I am thinking that this is even worse than tribble soccer balls. When are variable costs for these things coming in?

• mbomberdavid @ Sep 22nd, 2012 7:15PM

  I found a few interesting ideas in the comments and was amused by some of the criticisms too. "What's next?!?!?! Red doors for 200k Dilithium? "Holiday Lights" for the plants for another 200k?!?!? Perhaps a series of special "hairstyles" for the bartender staff for another 200k" I loved that one - really helped ease my constipation today - ty!!! But the zen point crash on the exchange is a problem perhaps that could be addressed with some zen point eye-candy for the star-bases? or perhaps dilithium for the base featured project and zen to expand on the base? Keep up the good work Cryptic!!!

• pertune

  this crap isnt worth 200K cryptic , maybe half that or a 1/4 that cost , and its completely worthless..... seriously dont you listen to the players at all ?

• mbomberdavid @ Sep 22nd, 2012 7:15PM

  I found a few interesting ideas in the comments and was amused by some of the criticisms too. "What's next?!?!?! Red doors for 200k Dilithium? "Holiday Lights" for the plants for another 200k?!?!? Perhaps a series of special "hairstyles" for the bartender staff for another 200k" I loved that one - really helped ease my constipation today - ty!!! But the zen point crash on the exchange is a problem perhaps that could be addressed with some zen point eye-candy for the star-bases? or perhaps dilithium for the base featured project and zen to expand on the base? Keep up the good work Cryptic!!!

• thelata @ Sep 20th, 2012 10:00AM

  our fleet is still stuck on the bartender project,no way we can afford all that dosi rotgut and romulan ale,dont see us ever having this new one available,give us the option to cancel projects pls cryptic.

• cypherpilot1

  The Bartender project is a normal starbase upgrade, this shows up under your special like the Colonists and Contraband ones

• pertune

  agreed

• whopurrr @ Sep 20th, 2012 8:18AM

  Well, I just hope these will be of some use when there's actual fleet vs lfeet pvp.

• emperormak @ Sep 20th, 2012 7:49AM

  I'm certainly not going to say I'm excited about this, but a lot of people need to calm down. If you don't like it, just ignore it. It has no relevance beyond appearance. No one is forcing you to do it. You are not in any way being punished for your decision to do it or not to do it. Complaining that it's a scam to waste your Dilithium is like complaining that mk XII weapons are a scam designed to waste your EC.

• lirdek @ Sep 20th, 2012 5:32AM

  Not doing this waste of time and dil. And yes its jsut another scam , you can deny but nevertheless its a scam. I would be ashamed as dev to work at cryptic. Actually i KNow some of you -devs- are.

• kritheaxenos

  You strike me as a guy that obviously has his finger on the pulse of the development team.

• iamlovage @ Sep 20th, 2012 2:25AM

  I just wish the devs would realise the economics of the situation. They should be charging Zen and not Dil for these projects, as currently there is an influx of Zen, but nothing worth spending it on, so it's just getting more and more worthless. Make people grind in game to get dil to convert into zen, price of zen will increase, people will be more likely to buy it. Sadly they've gone the route which will end up with zen costing 25 dil a piece and make the zen store items ridiculously easy to buy (and do them out of zen sales in the long run).

• sharpie65 @ Sep 19th, 2012 3:21PM

  has this got something to do with the fact that security officers on ESD (Earth SpaceDock) now carry phaser miniguns?

• soriedem @ Sep 19th, 2012 12:24PM

  I want those costumes for my klingon characters. Any chance of that?

• sharpie65

  i think it's the Mercenary costume set from the Z-Store

• ygyhuu @ Sep 19th, 2012 10:03AM

  So easy my w00t fleet iwll do this in under a second

• badname834854 @ Sep 19th, 2012 9:12AM

  What's next?!?!?! Red doors for 200k Dilithium? "Holiday Lights" for the plants for another 200k?!?!? Perhaps a series of special "hairstyles" for the bartender staff for another 200k dilithium!!!!!! FFS!!!!!

• cers001

  cryptic's probably saying "We have to change our up comming projects they've figured out they're just lame"

• abrahamjohnson83 @ Sep 19th, 2012 8:55AM

  Nice! Did this include in a future feature a ground PvE mission, to liberate a occupied starbase. ;)

• skiffy1 @ Sep 19th, 2012 8:14AM

  I really wish the Fed guards were wearing the Starfleet prison guard gear from the 2800 series.

• rickeyredshirt @ Sep 19th, 2012 7:23AM

  /sarcasm That Saurian looks right out of an episode of Deep Space Nine! :/ /end sarcasm

• rfzander @ Sep 19th, 2012 7:13AM

  This will be another project that my fleet will complete. Frankly its getting really tiresome reading all of these posts and seeing almost everyone bash these projects. Frankly if you dont like them dont do them. Im sure some of your fleets have taken that attitude. To those fleets I say, I cant wait till you guys see the fleets that do have them and the forums posts that will follow begging cryptic to cycle back through these projects so you can now pick them up. I almost wish cryptic would take the stance of never cycling back through the limited time special projects. On a positive note. My fleet will be completeing this limited time project as well. We have completed all others and our starbase cosmeticly seems more alive and active, almost like it is a hub for space travelers to wheel and deal. Please keep these cometic upgrades coming. Thank you cryptic for placing them in game in the first place. Jonathen Zander Vice Admiral Revelation Fleet

• britewolf

  Still a drag for small fleet's like mine. the effort it takes us to complete ANY of the holding assignments far outweighs our enjoyment factor... we still haven't even unlocked our starbase yet! PLEASE CRYPTIC! Set the requirements for an assignment by the number of members in the fleet, not arbitrarily chosen numbers!

• solantolval @ Sep 19th, 2012 3:26AM

  Well me fleet for one will be doing this. As far as wasting Dev time on this I am fairly sure that all the code and related stuff is already there, and has been since season 6 launched. I saw most of the items from these featured project when I used the demo record tool during the tribble test. So with this in mind all you are doing is unlocking them, so no more time is being wasted by the devs other than writing a simple blog. at the end of the day it is your choice to do it or not, I don't see the constant need to complain about it.

• jafobss1701 @ Sep 19th, 2012 2:18AM

  Ok Maybe Im not in the KNOW on this but the KDF security. WHY CANT WE HAVE THIS AS A UNIFORM IN KDF?????????

• ahilles7

  The Uniform KDF security is wearing is Omega gear that you can obtain by playing STF elites.So that uniform for KDF side already exist same as Klingon Honor Guard.

• jsck82 @ Sep 18th, 2012 11:53PM

  While a lot of the responses are overwhelmingly negative, I do agree with the idea. It's not adding content to the game, just spendy eye candy that doesnt offer any form of value. I would like to see something meaningful from the starbase, not simple eye candy. There's no reason to do these, and the teams putting them in (graphics, code, pathfinding, etc) could all be better served (for us, the consumer, at least) putting out a meaningful project, one that serves a purpose. Or the people that designed the outfits could have worked on getting the KDF gear to show properly... as an example. Please, give us something meaningful. People will pay either way, 200K dilithium is hardly a worthwhile endeavour for you or us. Especially for no reward of real value.

• ccarmichael07 @ Sep 18th, 2012 9:54PM

  Aahhh people, it's ok...the Devs have a fleet starbase of their own! they are making sure these projects are balanced, don't completely drain resources and are totally completable! :sarcastic thumbs up: ~ Just more NPCs to interact with in my Starfleet career who make me feel out of place because they wear a different uniform.

• starscorp180 @ Sep 18th, 2012 9:20PM

  I don't belong to a fleet and I don't have a starbase so Season 6 is pretty irrelevant for me. Maybe Season 7?

• ahilles7

  You will have to wait for season 8(next year) if you are solo player who is more oriented toward story missions.Season 7 will mostly be all about reputation system. Season 8 will be mainly be all about story missions. So yea you will have to skip season 7 too.

• masterjp123 @ Sep 18th, 2012 8:59PM

  Nice project ! The Starbase is starting to look good If you have all the other one on ! :D Any news on the New lockboxes ?

• tmichc @ Sep 18th, 2012 8:23PM

  Hey, how come the NPC Orions can look that cool but I can't make my Orion sci officer look that good? I'd pay the dil for this project if it meant that when the tailor was unlocked I could get my character looking that good!

• diddy13 @ Sep 18th, 2012 6:41PM

  So just to be clear, all the marks ,duty officers,dilithium, etc. All we get are more characters littering the base? How about an idea? Let's build a star ship from scratch..... Your welcome for the idea.